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A review by labyrinth_witch
How to Find a Princess by Alyssa Cole
5.0
As always, Alyssa Cole’s writing takes my breath away. Always deeper than a formulaic romance novel, this installment of the runaway royals series features two characters - one trying to over come her helping co-dependency (which I strongly identified with) and another with “chaos” energies who follows the “fireflies” in her mind (which I also identified with).
One of the reasons I love Alyssa Coles writing is because she offers a worldview where these atypical minds are perfectly typical…and valued, appreciated, and reveled in.
She also explores the very different lives of two women who both felt the weight of family legacy and obligation. One faced the traumatic emotional abandonment of her mother, the other wholly supported but still giving her life over to absolve the mistakes of a previous generation.
Through it all they have to learn to communicate, to ask for what they need, and to be vulnerable in articulating their reactions to each other. Such a healthy relationship evolution.
Along the way they take to the high seas and meet enlightened guides that support them in their unfolding.
Love everything about her books. But most of all, I love that Bez’s phrase is “that’s not how I would characterize it, but to each their own.” If only I could assume such a stance of people’s reactions to my own too-muchness.
One of the reasons I love Alyssa Coles writing is because she offers a worldview where these atypical minds are perfectly typical…and valued, appreciated, and reveled in.
She also explores the very different lives of two women who both felt the weight of family legacy and obligation. One faced the traumatic emotional abandonment of her mother, the other wholly supported but still giving her life over to absolve the mistakes of a previous generation.
Through it all they have to learn to communicate, to ask for what they need, and to be vulnerable in articulating their reactions to each other. Such a healthy relationship evolution.
Along the way they take to the high seas and meet enlightened guides that support them in their unfolding.
Love everything about her books. But most of all, I love that Bez’s phrase is “that’s not how I would characterize it, but to each their own.” If only I could assume such a stance of people’s reactions to my own too-muchness.